Education

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Primary and Secondary School Booking Form

Use this form for all teacher and student bookings and requests.

Education

About Prompt

Malthouse Prompt is our youth and education program.

Malthouse Theatre invites you to join us for a season that searches for empathy in unexpected places, and focuses on characters at epic crossroads. In 2017 we offer a dynamic range of productions, workshops and programs with the support from our Prompt Education Partner, Victoria University.

We encourage young audiences and artists to engage deeply with all aspects of our work, and hope to provoke robust discussion, debate and reflections on the world around us. All our activities bring students, teachers and Malthouse Theatre artists together for a year of provocative theatre and inspiring adventures behind the scenes.

For education queries or to discuss your booking, contact the Prompt team.

Education Supporters

Victoria University is proud to be the Education Partner of Malthouse Prompt. The Suitcase Series is supported by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and the Trawalla Foundation. Malthouse Prompt wishes to thank a number of our Muse donors for their specific support of this program.

Education

VCE Playlisted 2017

Malthouse Theatre’s VCE playlisted shows are supported by our excellent Prompt Packs, VCE Seminars and Revisit the Play sessions, to ensure that you and your students have everything you need for a deep engagement with and rich analysis of these productions.

Away

3 – 28 MAY 2017

BY / Michael GowDIRECTION / Matthew Lutton

VCE Theatre Studies (Unit 3)—PlaylistWe are delighted to announce that the Malthouse Theatre production of Away has been selected for the 2017 VCE Theatre Studies Playlist (Unit 3).

Taking up playwright Michael Gow’s challenge to break apart the rules of theatre, Matthew Lutton’s production unleashes the full theatricality of the text; intimacy gives way to the epic, and suburbia is replaced with the dark spectacle of a tempest.

Joseph Merrick, better known as the Elephant Man, survived the revulsion of a gawking public for years until finding asylum at the London Hospital in 1879. The Real And Imagined History of The Elephant Man spans his life from birth to death, weaving through the bustling streets of London, the incurables ward of the city’s hospital and the theatrics of the English public arena.

Education

The Suitcase Series

Our award winning education program.

The Suitcase Series empowers young people to tackle the greatest challenge of their generation: climate change. Year 9 and 10 students devise their own works in response to the commissioned script. This innovative program is a chance for students to develop and expand their theatre-making skills and to share a performance day with their peers, as well as viewing Malthouse Theatre’s full production of the play.

In 2017 we will see the return of the fourth play commissioned for this award-winning program: Turbine by Dan Giovannoni.

The Suitcase Series is supported by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and the Trawalla Foundation.

A number of individual donors also support individual school participation, we thank you.

Education

Planning your Education Visit

Useful information for school groups

Here's some general information to help you prepare for your visit to Malthouse Theatre. If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to contact Malthouse Prompt for more information on 03 9685 5164 or education@malthousetheatre.com.au.

Risk Assessment Guidance for Schools

It’s Malthouse Theatre so there’s always the chance that someone will get naked or say something rude. The nature of devising theatre is that things can change right up until opening night. If we feel that the content of a work may inhibit yours or your students’ enjoyment of the experience we will get in touch.

We’ve provided some Risk Assessment Guidance to assist teachers prepare for excursions to The Coopers Malthouse: